§ House in Committee (on Re-commitment) (according to order).
*LORD STANLEY OF ALDERLEYMy Lords, before this Bill goes into Committee I wish to ask my noble Friend the Secretary of State for India whether he has taken into consideration the Petition of the Salford School Board in reference to it. I am told that their Petition was very reasonable, and I would refer him particularly to Clause 5, which represents the undesirableness of placing juvenile offenders under the police. The other point to which I wish to call attention is that offenders sent to day Industrial Schools should be detained there for three years as in the case of Truant Schools; they say that detention there for one year is not sufficient to make the desired improvement in offenders.
§ *THE SECRETARY OF STATE FOR INDIA (Viscount CROSS)With reference to the Petition from the Salford School Board it has been presented to your Lordships' House, and is now I believe, on the Table. A copy of it has been forwarded to the Secretary of State for the Home Department, who, I have no doubt, will give me his views as soon as he has considered it. I will put down the Third Reading of the Bill for the 12th June, and I may say that for the same date I shall put down for Third Reading the Juvenile Offenders Bill and the Reformatory Schools Bill.
§ Bill reported without further amendment, and to be read 3ª on Thursday the 12th of June next.